Shawn Eric Lange, 19, was charged Wednesday, March 13, 2013 with two counts of malicious punishment of a child and one count of first-degree assault after doctors at the Midwest Children's Resource Center found extensive injuries sustained by his infant daughter consistent with child abuse. Photo courtesy of the Anoka County Sheriff's Office.

Shawn Eric Lange, 19, was charged Wednesday, March 13, 2013 with two counts of malicious punishment of a child and one count of first-degree assault after doctors at the Midwest Children's Resource Center found extensive injuries sustained by his infant daughter consistent with child abuse. Photo courtesy of the Anoka County Sheriff's Office.

A 20-year-old father was sentenced Tuesday to nearly five years in prison for fracturing his infant daughter’s skull.

Shawn Eric Lange received the 57-month sentence at a hearing in Anoka County District Court Tuesday, according to a spokesman for the Anoka County Attorney’s Office.

He pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree assault in December.

Lange was arrested in March after his 6-month-old daughter’s great-grandmother picked her up from the young father at an Anoka residence and noticed a large bruise on the infant’s head and blood coming from her nose.

The woman took the child to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed her with a fractured skull.

The injury required brain surgery.

The infant also had 10 broken ribs and broken bones in her legs and left arm.

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